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guttersnipe
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun guttersnipe has 1 sense
- guttersnipe(n = noun.person) street urchin - a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas; Array has particulars: gamine, gamin, street arab, throwaway
is a kind of urchin
CIDE DICTIONARY
guttersnipe, n.
- A small poster, suitable for a curbstone. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- same as
street Arab . [PJC] - a person of low moral character. [PJC]
THESAURUS
guttersnipe
Arab, Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, boor, bounder, bourgeois, brat, bum, bummer, cad, churl, clown, dogie, epicier, gamin, gamine, groundling, hobo, homeless waif, hooligan, idler, ill-bred fellow, landloper, lazzarone, loafer, looby, losel, lout, low fellow, mucker, mudlark, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, piker, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, ribald, rogue, rough, roughneck, rounder, rowdy, ruffian, ski bum, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tramp, turnpiker, upstart, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vulgarian, vulgarist, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, yokel
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